"Al Gore: US climate change bill a 'good start' "....

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(from 5/15/09)

"WASHINGTON (AFP) — A bill to fight climate change currently before the US Congress "is a good start," Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore said Friday.

With the House Energy and Commerce Committee due to start its formal debate on the bill come Monday, hoping to approve it by week's end and send it to the full House, Gore said the legislation "has now reached the stage that a lot of people thought it never would."

Democrats in the House of Representatives, who enjoy a broad majority, said Wednesday they would seek to get 15 percent of US energy from renewable sources -- solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass -- by 2020 and show annual energy savings of five percent from efficiency measures.

"It is a good start," Gore told CNN. "I think the essence of this challenge ... is to set in motion the forces of change so that we shift over to renewable energy and start making the job-creating investments that are going to really get our economy going on a sustainable basis."

He added: "Once that transition begins to shift, it will be unstoppable, because countries all over the world are beginning to do what we're beginning to do.""

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h_91y1_uwRxrAQ0U9YWWvHf1V1ag


So on the one hand we have Gore (and Krugman), saying the bill is a good start. On the other hand, we have Moonbeam McCrazypants whining, taking his ball, and going home because it's not *everything* we want.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and take the word of the foremost global warming expert on the US political scene.

Fuck Moonbeam McCrazypants and his refusal to be part of any solution but the "I want everything now!!!" whiner solution.